Sunday, August 22, 2010

The past...

Last night I sat next to some folks I have not seen in 40 years! It was terrific to catch up on their lives and remember some good old days! Some one said the high school class of 70' at Woodlawn Senior High was pretty special..well yes it was...it was special in many ways..we were shaped by events of our common history...in our short lives at the time...we saw a President shot, that shocked the nation. We saw Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King killed senselessly. We saw the riots in our streets and the horrors of Vietnam on TV. We protested the war and guys burned draft cards while women burned bras.We listened to Jimmy Hendrix, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Crosby Stills and Nash, Marvin Gaye and James Brown. Then we saw Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin die of drug over doses. We read the Mother Earth News and went to Woodstock. We celebrated the First Earth Day. We watched on our Black and White TV's the first man step foot on the moon. We saw four students killed at Kent State. We drove around Champs on Friday nights in our friends cars eating french Fries and Gravy. We went to the movies and saw Easy Rider, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, and the Midnight Cowboy. We wore bell bottom jeans and buffalo sandals. The Concorde was born IBM was computing...
We lived in segregated neighborhoods yet were friends with everyone. We banded together against the high school dress code policy banning "JEANS". We grew our hair long..We won..and we shared and we learned the power of coming together......Oh what a time it was! and there was so much more...
Maybe it was the age of the dawning of Aquarius! Aquarius traditionally "rules" electricity, computers, flight, democracy, freedom, humanitarianism, idealists, modernization, rebels and rebellion, mental diseases, nervous disorders, and astrology. Oh and as a teenager I didn't even know there was a stock market, but just out of curiosity, I checked and the Dow Jones index had dropped to 631! Yes that's right 631!
Wow that was a ramble...
The image here was shot in West Virginia, and has an image overlay applied and is toned for that old aged look.....kinda looks like the one that was knocked down when they built the old neighborhood.